“南海Ⅰ号”船载铁器初探

Discussion of Iron Wares Carried by Nanhai No.1

"南海Ⅰ号"沉船发掘至今,铁器数量仅次于陶瓷器,是船上重要的货物之一,主要以铁条、铁锅为主。宋代的冶铁技术先进,铁产量巨大,福建自古以来矿产资源丰富,是产铁冶铁的地区,为"南海Ⅰ号"船载铁器创造了海外贸易条件;因此铁器的生产销售对研究宋代铁器海外贸易具有非常重要的意义,也更正了在资料阙如的情况下对船载铁器的认识。

Iron waresare one of the most important cargo carried by Nanhai No.1.Most of them excavated from the shipwreck are iron blanks and iron wares.They are only less than the ceramics from the same shipwreck in amount.The iron smelting technology in Song dynasty was advanced and the amount of iron production was enormous.From ancient times,Fujian Province has been an iron producing and smelting area with ample mineral resources,which provides the oversea trading conditions for iron wares of Nanhai No.1.Thus the producing and selling of iron wares play an important role in the research on the oversea trading ofiron wares in Song dynasty.It also corrects the understanding of iron wares carried by ships under the lacking of reference data.